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I keep meaning to ask. Do intense or concentrated radar/cell signals cause XM Radio to go blank? One spot in town near the airport always freaks out Sirrius XM.
 
A Airport has a bunch of signals going out all the time Radar and ILS are probably the strongest.
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Unconventional said:
I keep meaning to ask. Do intense or concentrated radar/cell signals cause XM Radio to go blank? One spot in town near the airport always freaks out Sirrius XM.
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Some airports run a frequency jammer that will jam a frequency range when real close to the airport to prevent interference with their radar and ALS/ILS system . Also, if it’s near military aircraft, there’s other gadgets that can interfere as well. But generally the closer you are to Doppler radar, the worst all your other freqs will be. There’s a spot along I70 near the Indianapolis Center Radar tower that for a mile in each direction, you get only 1 FM radio station
 
Where did you hear of a jammer? It would jam theirs also. Marker beacons you can usually hear on a radio, on-off on-off like morse code 24/7
 
halifaxhops said:
Where did you hear of a jammer? It would jam theirs also. Marker beacons you can usually hear on a radio, on-off on-off like morse code 24/7
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Ran into it a few times when I was in that Comm section in the aviation brigade. It’s usually by airports with runways real close to busy highways. I know there’s one in GA that does. Or at least we were told it does.
 
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Man no way. We could not even test some of our systems if the airport had something coming in 20 miles away. Its a myth. Planes need those signals and no way in hell are commercial jammers directional. Also on or EC-130J's if they were at a airport our systems would go wild with fault codes.
 
halifaxhops said:
View attachment 1715698816 Man no way. We could not even test some of our systems if the airport had something coming in 20 miles away. Its a myth. Planes need those signals and no way in hell are commercial jammers directional. Also on or EC-130J's if they were at a airport our systems would go wild with fault codes.
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Ssssh damn it I know this....
 
halifaxhops said:
View attachment 1715698816 Man no way. We could not even test some of our systems if the airport had something coming in 20 miles away. Its a myth. Planes need those signals and no way in hell are commercial jammers directional. Also on or EC-130J's if they were at a airport our systems would go wild with fault codes.
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Guess I should have went it’s due to the increase in UFOs that airports and pilots are seeing.
 
dukeboy_318 said:
Guess I should have went it’s due to the increase in UFOs that airports and pilots are seeing.
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I have seen a UFO. Broad daylight. Cigar shaped and shiny. For real..
Was there about a dozen people were looking at it and it just disappeared.
 
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